Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 142, 19 April 1912 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND FALIiADIUM AXD SUN-TEJLEGBA3I. F RID AY, APRIL 19, 1912.

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THE PRICE WE PAY

Humanity an Aggregation of Puppets Pulled by Strings of Fated Circumstance. Man Creates His Own God, Not God Man.

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BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "The toll of the deep." Humanity pays a heavy price for existence. ... It must ight to live. It Is created haphazard. Its Individual entities are here by purest chance. Birth Is a mere accident. Lucky or unlucky, fortunate or unfortunate, heredity and environment alone will determine. It is the egotism of man which has created foreordination. ' The same quality which has manufactured a heaven. "Heaven" and "hell" are the product of man. Not God. All creeds, all religions, all systems and philosophies are of human origin. Perhaps that origin may be divine. N No one knows. Man may be the highest type of Intelligence yet evolved. So far as man himself knows this is true. Because he knows nothing that is not limited by th beginning of his creation and the end of his conscious being. The span of the life of man typifies that of humanity. Within its confines all knowledge is "corraled. Man knows nothing he has not discovered through his own agencies. He feels nothing he has not evolved out of his own experiences. Annihilation Is inimical to human consciousness. It is impossible of conception to the Individual. That he should be consigned to eternal oblivion is unbelievable.Therefore religions, creeds, philosophies. He has fooled himself by the splendor of his own ethical accomplishment. Is blinded by the brilliance of the light made by his own hand. Is delighted with the wonder of his own creation. Is bewildered by the multiplicity of this creation's parts. Becomes Inextricably entangled in his own opposing logic. But his egotism rides dominant. "Behold!" he cries, "what God has created ! -"ME!" And knows not that a far greater miracle has been achieved the creation of God by man. It Is a sad, a tremendous, a pitiful and, in th nd, a sardonic spectacle this will to live. This horror of decay. This determination to combat the grewsome bogey that skulks on the fringes of life. And the knowledge way down at the bottom of things that we are as helpless as rats In a trap. That we are puppets. The plaything and sport of some unknown and ma-1 lign force. What! "Beneficent" you say? Can a beneficent force consign two thousand unoffending beings to instant oblivion.

Is it a nenencent rorce mat snucea the life out of 27,000 persons a decade bt through th emnMnn of Mt. Pftlee?

That swept five thousand men and women to death through the tidal wave at Galveston? V So long as you do not get in its way this force may seem to be beneficent. It Is negative, however, not positive, in ltd fenerations.

Get in its path and you are flung

aside like a straw in a flood. Your human habitation topples like a house

of cards. Your existence collapses like a portable cup. You have no more chance than a baby with a roaring Hon. Humanity must have some anchor to tie too, however. And this anchor Is its hand-made religions. Justice, perfect and absolute, is the highest ideal of man. Therefore he has created a just God. How then does he explain the cruel manifestations of injustice? He doesn't explain it because he canH. Because he Is called on to explain this anachronism in his system which he still denies is his system but that of a Superior Being and because he must make some stand or forever be, discredited, he resorts to evasion, to hypocritical maunderlngs, to vagaries of statement, to platitudinous sermonising, to worn-out argument, to moth-eaten tradition, to false premises, to ethical smuggery. Strip off every sham, scrape right down to the bone, tear away all pretense and what do you find? The obsession of humanity that the death of the individual ends that individual's conscious life. Science teaches that nothing is lost. That what seemingly disappears reappears in another form. And there is nothing in Nature to disprove this assertion. Everything to prove it. All you need to d is to observe the changes of the season To note the outward expression of heredity. And, if you care to look at it that way, the lesson you learn is that it is idle, nay criminal, to fail to enjoy the present moment. Why wait for a future which may never materialize?

after? That person is the wisest who takes what the gods give. "It Is the height of folly," says Schopenhauer, "to refuse the present hour of happiness, or wantonly to spoil It by vexation at bygones or uneasiness about what is to come."

Here is one of the finest and the sanest expressions of philosophy. If accepted and acted upon this world would be a much more livable abode than it now Is. People are bound down by fears, tremors and hesitations. Are tied up with the "red tape of tradition. Are shackled by the hand-cuff of convention. It is this which retards all social life. Which holds humanity in an iron grasp of apathy. If the whole civilized world would agree that on a stated day a certain innovation would be accomplished within each political boundary the world would leap upward with such momentum It would be carried much farther than it had intended or expected. It's initiative that the world needs. It's progression not conservation that accomplishes the well being of humanity. Man cannot depend upon a mythiacl "higher power." He filmself is that higher power. He is Everything. Within him is found All. He himself must devise some means to nullify such disasters as that which cast two thousand helpless beings to ignominious and Instant death.' Godhead resides In humanity. It must recognize this and proceed to help itself. For it will get none from its manmade deity.

Streets of New York. "Anything In the line of luck can happen In New York city." observed a commercial traveler recently, -and some of the funniest stunts are accidentally pulled off. 1 saw something the other day quicker done than told. An automobile was going down Broadway. A woman dropped a magazine or book from. it. A man picked it up a man worse for .poverty. As the chauffeur turned the vehicle this man threw the magazine or book Into it, and the woman tossed a coin at him. Another man, running down Broadway, caught the coin and continued running. The man who had lost his tip started to laugh, and soon Broadway was laughing with him, although not knowing what It was laughing at" New York Tribune.

High Living In Germany. The Lokal Anzeiger of 'Berlin publishes an urgent appeal to German society leaders to return to "simple eating." It says that the luxury era in Germany has caused an extravagance in dining which threatens financial im poverishment and digestive ruin. Carlsbad, Marlenbad, Kissingen and other spas which cater to the needs of "penitent gluttons" are, says the Journal, visited by numbers, annually Increasing, who go there in spring and summer to make amends for overeating and overdrinking in winter.. "It would be, a genuine public service on the part of leading society personages if they would begin by practical example to wage war on the sensual luxuriousness of modern entertaining, as far as the culinary end of it is concerned. Only by a return to simple and sensible dinners cap we avert genuine economic and physical perils."

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Sugar is recommended as a stimulant, and one professor suggests that tired business men carry lumps of it in their pockets to restore their strength when languishing under the heat and burden of the day. If sugar is good, why not candy?

Wisconsin is to spend $1,250,000 on highway improvements in 1912. More than five hundred towns are to be benefited by the expenditure, and 465 miles of stone, gravel, shale and dirt roads will be constructed and 140 bridges are to be built.

'Pineapple Juice. As an aid of digestion, a really material aid. the pineapple stands alone among the fruit. Its vegetable pepsin neutralizes, or perhaps rather digests, albuminous substances In the stomach. Fresh pineapple or, better still, the fresh juice of one placed la direct contact with eggs or gelatine or milk will prove this fact conclusively by producing a bitter tasting dish. In cases of catarrhal ailments of the throat and In Its downward connection the

alimentary canal or tract pineapple cannot be overestimated, and it acts with equal force in malarial affections. New York World.

Mayba Mary Was Tee Sedats. Mrs. Nuwed Mary, for dinner Z thin well have boiled mutton with caper sauce. Are there any capers In the house? Mary No, ma'am. Mrs. Nuwed Then go out In the garden and cut some. Harvard Lampoon.

Smoke trans are used in the Stettin

theater, Germany, to provide against

fire. They are placed in the roofing above the stage . Six traps are mounted on the vertical sides of a skylight, so that a large opening is given by raising all the traps. The opening devices are controlled from the stage.

The average temperature of Egypt is being slowy lowered by irrigation.

Putting In a Sting. Maud Jack Is telling around that you are worth your weight In gold. thel The foolish boy. Who Is he telling It to? Maud His creditors. Denver Times.

How He Escaped. "What do you think. A fellow stole ! a drum from the orchestra yesterday.

"Yes. saw a cop coming and beat it.' Exchange.

Let us' be kind If we wish to be regretted. Pierre Lot!.

Magnesium is the principal ingredi- j ent in a new alloy brought out in j France that weighs about two-thirds j

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